Hi guys! Sorry this took so long. I could bore you with the details of why this took so long, but as I previously stated they're boring.
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Naruto had appeared before the shinigami of seireitei and he'd talked at them. For ten minutes he'd explained to them exactly what had gone down in the human world, and how Rukia was now being sentenced to execution. He would have talked to the longer but…
"Stay still!" roared Soi-Fon, as she failed another palm strike, Naruto smoothly sliding out of the way only to be confronted by Hitsuguya.
"You're going to pay destroying my paperwork," growled Hitsgaya. "I spent hours doing those papers, and now I have to do them AGAIN!"
He didn't waste another breath as he used a Flash step to appear before Naruto swinging his blade in a wide ark. But Naruto jumped backwards out the way before back flipping over Soi-Fon who had appeared behind him blade in hand trying to stab him. He hadn't even landed when Soi-Fon twisted mid attack and seemed to disappear before the spectator's eyes, before reappearing right next to Naruto. She swung the blade hoping to hit but Naruto lashed out at her with a punch. As he did so the flat side of Soi-Fon's blade met the flat side of his fist and grated down his arm without cutting it.
Soi-Fon although caught by surprise didn't falter and tilted her head to the side just as the fist flew past. Neither were deterred though, as Soi-Fon spun trying to get the boy with a powerful kick. It didn't go as planned though as Naruto managed to twist his body over it, at the same time laying his palm flat on her leg and pushed himself further into the air, just in time to watch Hitsugaya blade pass in a horizontal swerve exactly where he'd just been. Naruto lashed out with a kick next, aimed straight at Hitsugaya's face. Only the small captain brought his blade up just in time to take the blow with the flat of his blade, although the force behind the kick still forced him to go skidding backwards. He retook his stance just as Soi-Fon appeared beside him donning her own. Naruto too landing and took his own stance, which seemed to simply include standing there and leaning forward slightly.
"He's fast, and he hasn't even used his duplication ability," Hitsugaya said, eyeing Naruto with an angry glare.
Soi-Fon nodded her head, never allowing her own eyes to leave Naruto.
"It's not just speed and strength. He sees through everything we do. It's experience. He's saw through every attack because he's already saw someone else do them before," Soi-Fon said, with something akin to respect in her voice. "He may act like a fool but he's a true warrior."
Naruto grinned at her then turned his gaze to the crowd.
"See, a Captain's battle. Told you all you'd see something amazing."
Soi-Fon took the chance when Naruto's head turned to attack, attempting to stab the blond, but the his head turned to grin at her. He moved to the side, revealing a clone behind him. It shot forwards with a punch and Soi-Fon barely managed to react in time. She twisted to the side and slashed as the hollow flew passed, causing the hollow to dissipate into smoke. Only now her position was less than favorable, especially when Naruto appeared directly above her. His hand descended in a palm strike that went straight for her stomach and Soi-Fon found she couldn't recover in time.
"Sit upon the frozen heaven's Hyourinmaru!"
Naruto found himself hard-pressed to switch from attacking to dodging but he managed it by switching himself with a clone he had on standby. Switching with his clones was much easier than switching with people. If they caught on quick enough they could resist the tug, and cause the switch to take a second longer than it should. That meant not only more energy wasted but he might be too late to dodge whatever needed dodging.
The clone which appeared above Soi-Fon was barged into by Hitsugaya's ice dragon, sending it barreling away before dispelling.
"Well that was close," said Naruto. "I honestly didn't think baby face would be so quick to react." Hitsugaya felt a tick mark appear on his forehead when Naruto called him by the new nickname, but he didn't react.
"Sting all enemies to death Suzumebachi," were Soi-Fon's next words. Her blade begin to glow and shrink until it took on the form of a yellow stinger that was wrapped around her right hand.
"Give up now Hollow. We were told that capturing you is preferable but we can kill you if we must," she said, fixing the hollow with a glare. Naruto just smiled back at her though.
"Oh so we're kicking the Party up into next gear eh, releasing both you're Zanpakuto." Naruto drew his own, which once it was free from its scabbard turned out to be an ordinary looking tanto. "Well maybe I should use my own release."
The two captain's eyes widened. The hollow was a pain in the ass now, but it could get stronger. That was bad. But then to both the captains' shock Naruto frowned.
"What do you mean no. Oh come on, you never fight. Don't you want to actually do something? Well take a nap later! Now is not the perfect time, I'm fighting a pair of captains! Oh you know what, screw you I'll do it myself."
Naruto gave a grumble before putting the blade away back into its scabbard, both the captains too shocked to even attack by what just transpired. Then Hitsugaya noticed something strange.
"Why do you have a standard Katana size scabbard if your sword's a tanto? He asked curiously.
Naruto blinked up at the captain.
"Well the thing is you can't really get scabbards in Huecco Mundo and I can't use one from the human world. So I beat the crap out of an Arrancar once and nicked his. I used to just tuck it into my belt. Anyway it's cool like that, people aren't expecting it.
"Umm, right," answered Hitsugaya before getting ready to attack again.
"Well guess I'll just have to go full out then," Naruto said with a sigh. His hand moved up to the bone white ring around his neck before he grasped it in his hand. The band began to expand in his hand allowing the blond to pull it up onto his forehead where it began to shrink again. Once it was secured to his head Naruto gave a grin and removed his hand. The second he did so the surrounding shinigami who were still watching the fight suddenly had a lot of trouble breathing and fell down onto their knees and the eyes of both captains widened considerably as they felt Naruto's reiatsu suddenly rise.
"What's going on!" shouted Soi-Fon, clearly not comfortable with the new power level of her opponent. Naruto just flashed her a smile and pointed to his head.
"Basically a looooooong time ago I still had sucky control of my reiastsu so a lot of hollows or spirits who were around me had this annoying habit of starting to die. But by taking my headband off I can store some of my power inside of it and remove it, making my reiatsu a lot more manageable. Well I can control it now, but I still only wear my headband when I'm in a serious fight. And if you two are going to be trying to kill me, then I really shouldn't be holding back."
And with that Naruto disappeared. It wasn't a Flash step or an Arrancar's sonido. He simply seemed to disappear.
Hitsugaya felt the hair's on his neck stand on end and for that reason alone he brought his sword up to his side, just in time for Naruto's foot to crash into it. The force of the blow was staggering, and Hitsugaya was sent hurtling into Soi-Fon, who didn't have enough time to register the tiny captain before he slammed into her. The two were thrown to the floor and skidded along it until they reached the end of the stage, where they were both half hanging off the edge.
"And that's what I call putting my foot down!" Naruto called triummphantly.
The pressure had stopped flooding the area so the shinigami had been able to get up just in time to watch the two captains get nailed. There was a stunned silence interrupted only by a pair of growns. A moment later the two captains were back up on their feet.
"Damnit, he's got even stronger," Soi-Fon gasped out. He was her equal in speed before, but the unpredictability of his style had her at a loss. Now he was faster than her as well.
"The difficulty level just got higher," said Hitsugaya. "We'll need to co-ordinate an attack. I think we've both figured out that sneak attacks are pointless. We'll have to force him into a corner.
Soi-Fon nodded her agreement.
"I'll attack from behind, you take front."
She disappeared into a flash step as Hitsugaya brought his sword back and swung it. A massive ice dragon erupted from the blade and hurtled towards Naruto. The plan was simple and unspoken. Get him while he dodges, swamp him with attacks and hope for a lucky hit. It was a crude plan but one that had proved itself effective. Only instead of dodging the attack as it came closed Naruto slammed palm forwards into the dragon's head. Hitsugaya could barely contain his shock when the dragon's head exploded. Soi-Fon did a much better job of getting over it, appearing directly behind Naruto and thrusting forward with Suzumebachi. Only Naruto tilted to the side, allowing her arm to shoot past. He grabbed her wrist before she could pull it back and pulled, causing Soi-Fon to come over his head and dragged her in front of him. Without a word he kicked forward, slamming his heel into her stomach. Soi-Fon actually felt her bowels cave in. She couldn't remember ever being hit that hard in her life. She shot of in Hitsugaya's direction, who had been rushing towards them. The boy jumped forwards and caught her, the force of her flight sending him skidding backwards. He let her down again, and the captain almost fell to her knees.
"Are you alright?" He asked, hardly believing that Soi-Fon had been left in such a state from a single attack.
"Fine," she gasped out. "He's strong. Don't let him hit you."
Hitsugaya nodded.
"We'll go for a twofold attack," Soi-Fon continued. "I'll take point and you follow up. "
Hitsugaya nodded and waited for her to get back into position.
"Ready, let's go," she said without waiting for an answer. She shot forwards, Hitsugaya following her up. Only Naruto shot forwards as well. He batted away Soi-Fon's first attack before shooting his hand out. Soi-Fon had charged by lowering her body to an angle, and she now found his arm beneath her torso. A split second later, he feet had been swept her shoulder had been pushed down and her torso had been lifted by his arm. The result was that she was sent hurtling head over heels behind him. Naruto didn't even slow down upon reaching Hitsugaya, who hadn't been able to see what happened properly and barely managed to retaliate with his sword. But Naruto dodged low beneath the attack before shooting upwards, plating his fist just below Hitsugaya's rib-cage. Hitsugaya's felt blood work its way up his throat and was forced to cough it out as the attack forced him into the air. Behind them, Soi-Fon had landed on her feet and shot back towards Naruto with his back turned to her. But as he reached her, he spun abandoning his assault on the tenth division captain to try and plant a heel into her face. Reacting quickly Soi-Fon altered her course allowing the foot to fly by over her shoulder, but she couldn't react to the second foot that slammed rght into her shoulder blade. Physics are sketchy in these cases, and usually end up with the colliding object, in this case being Soi-Fon to gain a lift and flip over the object they slammed into. Soi-Fon had shot forwards and slammed into Naruto's foot, causing her to flip into the air over Naruto and collide with Hitsugaya.
The two captains gave a grunt but that's all. Deciding to make the most of it, Soi-Fon used her sudden stop after her collision as an opportunity to gain a footing in mid-air and launch herself back to her opponent who was still in a position that should leave dodging difficult. She rocketed towards him with her leg outstretched. She caught a flash of his eyes before the boy twisted in the air so he had his back to her and then slammed his palm onto the ground, before almost simultaneously pushing, causing him to spiral out the way, just before Soi-Fon would have hit him. Instead she slammed into the stage and her leg went right through it, causing bits of wood to go everywhere. Naruto had landed on all fours and skidded a little, but he assumed a runners start and shot of just as an ice dragon courtesy of one recovering Toushiro Hitsugaya slammed into the place he'd just occupied. Soi-Fon at least managed to jump out of the hole before Naruto was in front of her, fist cocked back and ready for action.
"Falcon punch!" he screamed cheerily
She had just enough time to cross her arms to guard her before Naruto's fist shot forward and slammed into her guard. She underestimated the force of the blow. She knew he was powerful but when she heard and felt her bones crack she knew she hadn't realized just how powerful. She flew backwards through the air clear of the stage and slammed into the wall of a building. Large cracks appeared around her in the wall, as she was currently too busy groaning in pain to try and extract herself from the small crater she'd been punched into.
"Captain Soi-Fon!" Hitsugaya yelled, worry easily heard in his tone. She may not be the most sociable of the captains but the two got on alright. Hitsugaya turned to glare at Naruto, who just gave him a cheeky grin. He was still hurting from Naruto's punch, but that didn't stop him from raising his sword.
"Don't look so smug Hollow, this isn't over yet," he said, before disappearing into a flash step of his own. He re-appeared right next to Naruto, his blade swinging in an arc ready to decapitate the hollow. But Naruto was quick to duck, bending his knees and bending backwards at the same time. A second later he spun and struck out with his foot, but Hitsugaya had managed to move to the side and dodge. He swung his blade again, unleashing a wave of ice, only to hit thin air. Hitsugaya felt movement behind him and dived to the side as Naruto's foot sailed through the space his head just was. He wasn't out of the woods though. Naruto spun on the balls of his feet and lashed out with another kick before Hitsugaya had time to counter attack. He did have time to move his sword in the way so it took the brunt of the kick and once again he found himself skidding backwards across the stage.
"You're pretty good for a kid," Naruto told him with a smile. "You got your forms down pat and you're pretty skilled with that sword of yours. But you need more experience. I've fought dozens of ice users, and a lot of them fight in a similar way to you."
Hitsugaya growled at the hollow before holding his blade out in front of him, the tip parallel with Naruto's eyes.
"This is no regular ice type Zanpakuto," Hitsugaya stated. "This is Hyourinmaru, the most powerful of all ice type Zanpakuto's. It would be smart not to compare it to anything else you've ever faced before."
Hitsugaya didn't wait for Naruto to answer. Instead he began to pack as much reiatsu into his blade as he could. Naruto raised an eyebrow as he noticed the sword began to glow.
"Tenso Jurin," Hitsugaya stated. "It's the basic ability held by my Zanpakuto. In laymen's terms it's the ability to control the weather. But it's not fully mature yet. Still with this ability I can pull the water directly from the atmosphere and meld it over."
Naruto gave a whistle, before noticing that a rain drop had hit his face. Confused he looked up to the sky, where dark clouds had begun to gather.
'How strange, I didn't know it could rain in soul society.'
"You've noticed," stated Hitsugaya. "The power of my Zanpakuto is rather potent, so releasing it inside of soul society can cause anomaly's within the weather. Don't worry, the rain drops won't hurt you."
Naruto raised an eyebrow. The blade of Hitsugaya's Zanpakuto was really flashing now, and the chain of the blade seemed to be circling around Hitsugaya.
"This is the end hollow. There is no way for you to escape this attack."
Hitsugaya held his blade pointing it to the ground and spun it clockwise into his hand. Once it reached its apex water began to swirl around the glowing blade.
"Hyaku Hyoro," whispered Hitsugaya before swing his sword. There was a blinding white as the water surrounding the blade seemed to disperse, and the area surrounding Naruto began to shine.
Naruto's eyes widened before a blinding light engulfed the area, drowning out Naruto's words.
"It was the rain…"
The area seemed to rumble as the attack took effect and the shinigami had to shield their eyes from the light. When it eventually died down they were in awe at what they saw. More than half the stage had been engulfed in a pillar of ice that seemed to reach the heavens itself.
"One hundred years ice prison," finished Hitsugaya before suddenly falling forwards. He stabbed his Zanpakuto, which had now reverted back into its sealed state into the ground in order to keep himself upright. He was sweating profusely, and he was having trouble getting back up.
"Damnit, using that attack outside of Bankai is too draining," he said, whilst trying to get back up. "And it takes too long to build up the energy."
"I agree," said Naruto from beside him, looking up at the ice tower and giving a whistle.
Hitsugaya gave a yelp before falling to the side. Naruto looked at him with his hand in his pockets and a raised eyebrow as he struggle back onto his feet.
"How did you… I know I got you. Once you're inside the radius if the attack there's no way to escape! It's impossible for you to be here."
Naruto nodded his head in agreement.
"You're probably right. Breaking out of that thing would be a pain. Luckily I was never in the area of the attack in the first place."
Naruto looked to the side and saw the incredulous look that Hitsugaya was giving him.
"What, you didn't seriously think I would stand there while you charged a big ass attack did you? No what you got was a clone. I swapped myself out and decided to watch from that tree over there."
Hitsugaya's mouth hung limp as his mind tried to process what the blond was telling him. He'd done all that work, to kill a clone? Clones that were rather easy to kill anyway.
"I… I think I honestly hate you," Hitsugaya said after a minute of quiet contemplation. Naruto just grinned and slapped him on the back, causing the young looking captain to stumble forwards.
"That's the spirit," said Naruto happily, just before ducking, and allowing a recovered Soi-Fon's strike to go over her head. Next he spun on his heels, avoiding an axe kick and did a cartwheel backwards to avoid a roundhouse kick.
Soi-Fon now stood panting beside Hitsugaya as she eyed Naruto warily. The blond was still grinning at her, and seemed to be making no move to attack.
"Captain Soi-Fon, we should retreat," breathed out Hitsugaya. He was still leaning on his sword and he could see Soi-Fon was still hurting from the way she hung her arms. "We're going to need Bankai to defeat him, and at the moment we don't have permission to release our Zanpakuto's to that level."
Soi-Fon was trying to control her breathing as she listened to the small captain, trying not to appear as hurt as she was. But as much as she agreed with what he said, she had already decided she was not going to back down.
"I still have one more technique that might give us a chance," said Soi-Fon. "Only I haven't learned to fully control it yet. But under these circumstances I don't think I have a choice."
Soi-Fon allowed her breathing to even out before standing up straight. In one fluid movement she removed her captains Haori and tossed It to the side.
"I have no name for this technique yet," said Soi-Fon as she closed her eyes. "But with it I should be able to win."
And then Soi-Fon seemed to explode with pure white energy. Hitsugaya stood in awe, watching as the energy seemed to coat Soi-Fon's back, covering it in a layer of white Kido.
"This is it Hollow. You can't win anymore."
There was a flash of white and then she was gone.
Naruto's eyes widened briefly before a foot smashed into his head. There was a huge cracking sound as he seemed to fly to the side, before disappearing into a puff of smoke.
"Wow," said the real Naruto, who was now standing behind a slack jawed Hitsugaya, with an arm around his shoulders. "Did you see that! She kicked through my clones Hierro like it was nothing! Jeez that looked dangerous."
He was given no more time to talk as Soi-Fon appeared again, with a palm placed across his chest. A split second later her energy surged forward and barreled into Naruto, destroying his chest and sending him backwards only to disappear once more.
"You know as a general rule I always create more than one clone. It's just only one or two of them ever seem to listen to me and that's why you only see me using so many at once. I can still swap out for them though." Naruto said from within the crowd of shinigami, causing all the shinigami to turn and stare at him. Not a single one of them had noticed him there. He disappeared pretty quickly though when Soi-Fon appeared above his head and brought her foot down, causing a huge crater to appear where Naruto had been standing and sending many of the shinigami who had been watching, flying backwards. Soi-Fon was further surprised when one of the shinigami who were sent flying hint the ground and disappeared with a poof.
"What the?" she muttered with a frown. She wasn't given much time to think though as Naruto appeared before her once again, a smile plastered on her his face. With the aid of her new technique Soi-Fon's reactions had been amplified, and she managed to move her head to the side just in time as Naruto's hand snapped out. She countered by turning her body in so her shoulder was facing Naruto and thrusting her own palm forwards. Naruto surprised her by matching her reaction time, tilting his body so the blow flew by his torso harmlessly. Continuing his action Naruto spun, bringing a closed fist around in a backhand aimed at Soi-Fon's head but it was quickly ducked. Soi-Fon channeled more kido into her hand and launched what would have been a devastating punch at Naruto's stomach. But the blond's hand shot out, his palm brushing her fist, and she suddenly found her attack of the mark. Her fist dispelled the energy, but it made no contact with Naruto, impacting the ground to the right of him. Stunned at his counter, she almost forgot to dodge the elbow that Naruto had sent rocketing at her face. Once again she ducked the blow, hoping to move inside his guard but Naruto had anticipated her. She was able to bring her arm up and block the knee that Naruto had tried to counter her with using her forearm. There was a displacement of air followed by a shockwave as the two limbs met, and the ground beneath them seemed to crack. Soi-Fon winced at the feeling of her arm breaking. Her technique was not perfect and it extremely taxing on her body. Her arms had taken a good bit of damage from Naruto's attack earlier and she knew if she continued fighting much longer her arms would break. Seeing no choice Soi-Fon disappeared in a flash step, attempting to gain some distance from Naruto. If she was going to win, she'd need to land a solid hit, something that almost impossible when it came to her opponent.
She stopped suddenly in mid-air, before twisting her body and lashing out with an overhead kick behind her. Naruto materialized there, his palm blocking the kick. It had enough force to repel him, Naruto's arm shooting up and his torso bending backwards due to the force of the blow. Deciding to press her advantage, Soi-Fon righted herself before bolting forwards, lashing out with her fingertips cloaked in kido. As she approached Naruto suddenly righted himself and seemed to spin around the attack. Soi-Fon's eyes widened as he appeared behind her.
"You should never let you enemies get behind you," he whispered in her ear. And suddenly Soi-Fon felt strange. Like she couldn't move no matter how much she wanted too. "Forbidden art, one thousand years of death!" What happened next was something that Soi-Fon was going to considered one of the biggest humiliations she had ever suffered, as Naruto seemed to jab his fingers up her ass. Soi-Fon felt her face go beat red and tears swell in her eyes. For a moment nothing seemed to happen. They both seemed to just hang there, above the arena.
"Erm this is the bit where you fly into the air screaming in pain and embarrassment," said Naruto, not seeming to understand what was happening. Slowly, almost robotically, Soi-Fon turned her head to face him. He saw her red face, and strained tears before noticing something else. She was glaring at him with such intensity he was privately sure she melt the sun with it.
"I am going to kill you," she said slowly.
"Umm, maybe I made a mistake," said Naruto with a sweat drop.
Aizen gazed at the figure before him, with a look every bit as regal as he thought himself to be.
"Very well my loyal servant. I think I have allowed them to relax long enough. If soul Society will not make a move then I will. Go, and take your revenge against Ichigo Kurosaki. But remember, the girl belongs to me. Bring her back here." The tall figure before Aizen gave a nod before turning. With a swipe of his hand a dark hole appeared before him. A moment later he was gone.
Aizen waited a few minutes before making a motion with his hand.
"Yes, Lord Aizen," said Ulquirra Cifer as he stepped forwards.
"I am interested in this Ichigo Kurosaki. I want you to go and monitor the battle. Do not interfere. Afterwards return here and share what you have discovered."
Ulquirra gave a small bow before turning on his heal.
"Yes, Lord Aizen."
A moment later he was gone. Aizen was now alone with one other figure in the room.
"Harribel. You are to tell no one of the results of my encounter with Cuervo. Is that clear."
Harribel bowed her head.
"Yes Master Aizen. It is clear."
"Good, now fetch me Gin, and if you could, ask him to bring some fresh bandages."
Harribel gave another bow before she too turned on her heal and left.
Aizen sat idly in his seat thinking over the events of the day.
"For the first time Kyouka Suigetsu has proved useless," he murmured. "But it is effective against Barragan. So not all of the four gods are immune to it. The question is, is it just Cuervo, or are the other two as well?
Yes, next chapter Ichigo will actually have to do something. Now I'm sure you all want to know how the poll results are going. Well nothings changed. They all got more votes but the gap bewteen the top four has really changed. Well anyway, if you want to change that you're goign to have to vote for your favourite. Although I think soon I'll just keep the top five so since I honestly don't think the lower ones have a chance at catching up now.